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8. Tracking the Near Eastern origins and European dispersal of the western house mouse

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Cucchi, Thomas, Papayianni, Katerina, Cersoy, Sophie, Aznar-Cormano, Laetitia, Zazzo, Antoine, Debruyne, Régis, Berthon, Rémi, Bălășescu, Adrian, Simmons, Alan, Valla, François, Hamilakis, Yannis, Mavridis, Fanis, Mashkour, Marjan, Darvish, Jamshid, Siahsarvi, Roohollah, Biglari, Fereidoun, Petrie, Cameron A., Weeks, Lloyd, Sardari, Alireza, Maziar, Sepideh, Denys, Christiane, Orton, David, Jenkins, Emma, Zeder, Melinda, Searle, Jeremy B., Larson, Greger, Bonhomme, François, Auffray, Jean-Christophe, and Vigne, Jean-Denis

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2020
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14. Phylogeny and adaptation shape the teeth of insular mice

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Ledevin, Ronan, Chevret, Pascale, Ganem, Guila, Britton-Davidian, Janice, Hardouin, Emilie A., Chapuis, Jean-Louis, Pisanu, Benoit, da Luz Mathias, Maria, Schlager, Stefan, Auffray, Jean-Christophe, and Renaud, Sabrina

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2016

21. Modularity as a source of new morphological variation in the mandible of hybrid mice

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Renaud Sabrina, Alibert Paul, and Auffray Jean-Christophe

Subjects
Mus musculus, House mouse, Mandible shape, Hybridization, Geometric morphometrics, Transgressive phenotypes, Evolution, QH359-425
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Abstract Background Hybridization is often seen as a process dampening phenotypic differences accumulated between diverging evolutionary units. For a complex trait comprising several relatively independent modules, hybridization may however simply generate new phenotypes, by combining into a new mosaic modules inherited from each parental groups and parts intermediate with respect to the parental groups. We tested this hypothesis by studying mandible size and shape in a set of first and second generation hybrids resulting from inbred wild-derived laboratory strains documenting two subspecies of house mice, Musmusculus domesticus and Musmusculus musculus. Phenotypic variation of the mandible was divided into nested partitions of developmental, evolutionary and functional modules. Results The size and shape of the modules were differently influenced by hybridization. Some modules seemed to be the result of typical additive effects with hybrids intermediate between parents, some displayed a pattern expected in the case of monogenic dominance, whereas in other modules, hybrids were transgressive. The result is interpreted as the production of novel mandible morphologies. Beyond this modularity, modules in functional interaction tended to display significant covariations. Conclusions Modularity emerges as a source of novel morphological variation by its simple potential to combine different parts of the parental phenotypes into a novel offspring mosaic of modules. This effect is partly counterbalanced by bone remodeling insuring an integration of the mosaic mandible into a functional ensemble, adding a non-genetic component to the production of transgressive phenotypes in hybrids.

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2012
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22. Epigenetic effects on the mouse mandible: common features and discrepancies in remodeling due to muscular dystrophy and response to food consistency

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de la Porte Sabine, Auffray Jean-Christophe, and Renaud Sabrina

Subjects
Evolution, QH359-425
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Abstract Background In wild populations phenotypic differentiation of skeletal structures is influenced by many factors including epigenetic interactions and plastic response to environmental influences, possibly blurring the expression of genetic differences. In contrast, laboratory animals provide the opportunity to separate environmental from genetic effects. The mouse mandible is particularly prone to such plastic variations because bone remodeling occurs late in postnatal ontogeny, in interaction with muscular loading. In order to understand the impact of this process on mandible morphology, we investigated how change in the masticatory function affects the mandible shape, and its pattern of variation. Breeding laboratory mice on food of different consistencies mimicked a natural variation in feeding ecology, whereas mice affected by the murine analogue of the Duchenne muscular dystrophy provided a case of pathological modification of the mastication process. Results Food consistency as well as dystrophy caused significant shape changes in the mouse mandible. Further differences were observed between laboratory strains and between sexes within strains, muscular dystrophy causing the largest morphological change. The directions of the morphological changes due to food consistency and muscular dystrophy were discrepant, despite the fact that both are related to bone remodeling. In contrast, directions of greatest variance were comparable among most groups, and the direction of the change due to sexual dimorphism was parallel to the direction of main variance. Conclusions Bone remodeling is confirmed as an important factor driving mandible shape differences, evidenced by differences due to both the consistency of the food ingested and muscular dystrophy. However, the resulting shape change will depend on how the masticatory function is affected. Muscular dystrophy caused shape changes distributed all over the mandible, all muscles being affected although possibly to a different degree. In contrast, the chewing function was mostly affected when the mice were fed on hard vs. soft food, whereas grinding likely occurred normally; accordingly, shape change was more localized. The direction of greatest variance, however, was remarkably comparable among groups, although we found a residual variance discarding age, sex, and food differences. This suggests that whatever the context in which bone remodeling occurs, some parts of the mandible such as the angular process are more prone to remodeling during late postnatal growth.

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2010
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24. Le développement durable à découvert

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Abbadie, Luc, Alger, Ingela, André, Michel, Annesi-Maesano, Isabella, Arnaud, Nicolas, Arnould, Paul, Atteia, Olivier, Auffray, Jean-Christophe, Barles, Sabine, Barnaud, Geneviève, Baron, Nacima, Barraqué, Bernard, Battin-Leclerc, Frédérique, Baudry, Jacques, Benoît, Marc, Berthoud, Françoise, Bertin, Xavier, Bès, Clémence, Blain, Stéphane, Blanc, Isabelle, Blanc, Nathalie, Boëtsch, Gilles, Boeuf, Gilles, Bondeau, Alberte, Bopp, Laurent, Bornette, Gudrun, Boutigny, Dominique, Bretagnolle, Vincent, Brunet, Yves, Burel, Françoise, Capy, Pierre, Cassir, Michel, Cathelineau, Michel, Chalon, Jean-Pierre, Chanéac, Corinne, Chemineau, Philippe, Chevaldonné, Pierre, Clergeau, Philippe, Colonna, Paul, Comby, Joseph, Coulon, Jean-Baptiste, Coutard, Olivier, Couvet, Denis, Cramer, Wolfgang, Crifo, Patricia, Cury, Philippe, Dandin, Philippe, David, Romain, Da Silva, Éric, Delecluse, Pascale, Delmotte, Valérie Masson, Desjardins, Xavier, Dessaux, Yves, de Marsily, Ghislain, Diaconu, Cristinel, Djellouli, Yamna, Dobré, Michelle, Douville, Hervé, Dron, Dominique, Dufumier, Marc, Duguet, Nicolas, Dutoit, Thierry, Duvat, Virginie, Ekeland, Ivar, Emelianoff, Cyria, Esnouf, Catherine, Euzen, Agathe, Eymard, Laurence, Féral, Jean-Pierre, Foyer, Jean, Frossard, Victor, Fuchs, Alain, Gaill, Françoise, Gaillard, Émilie, Galgani, François, Garnier, Emmanuel, Garric, Jeanne, Garrigues, Philippe, Geoffron, Patrice, George, Christian, Ghorra-Gobin, Cynthia, Gilbert, Claude, Goffé, Bruno, Gondran, Natacha, Grison, Claude, Guermont, Catherine, Guihard-Costa, Anne-Marie, Hainzelin, Étienne, Harpet, Cyrille, Hervé-Fournereau, Nathalie, Hourcade, Jean-Charles, Ingold, Alice, Isnard, Laure, Jeandel, Catherine, Jessus, Catherine, Joussaume, Sylvie, Jullian, Sophie, Kaisermann, Aurore, Labussière, Olivier, Lageat, Yannick, Larrère, Catherine, Larrue, Corinne, Lata, Jean-Christophe, Laugier, Sandra, Lavorel, Sandra, Leadley, Paul, Leblois, Antoine, Lemaire, Marc, Lepart, Jacques, Letonturier, Éric, Levi, Yves, Lévy, Jean-Pierre, Lévy, Marina, Le Bohec, Céline, Le Bras, Hervé, Le Maho, Yvon, Le Roux, Thomas, Le Treut, Hervé, Longaretti, Pierre-Yves, Loreau, Michel, Lucas, Hélène, Lucotte, Marc, Magny, Michel, Marco, Audrey, Massot, Marie-Hélène, Mathevet, Raphaël, Mayaud, Jean-Luc, Mellouki, Abdelwahid, Merlot, Bérengère, Métay, Estelle, Meyer, Morgan, Millet, Laurent, Mosseri, Rémy, Muller, Bertrand, Nadaï, Alain, Negrutiu, Ioan, Ngô, Christian, Ogé, Frédéric, Olivieri, Isabelle, Pacteau, Chantal, Paillard, Sandrine, Papon, Pierre, Pavé, Alain, Pérez, Thierry, Perrodin, Yves, Pironon, Jacques, Planes, Serge, Pomel, Simon, Pont, Didier, Quirion, Philippe, Reghezza-Zitt, Magali, Rémond, Yves, Renaud, François, Rochette, Julien, Ronce, Ophélie, Roué, Marie, Royer, Michel, Russel, Marie, Salanié, François, Salles, Denis, Salles, Jean-Michel, Sanchez, Clément, Sardin, Michel, Schmitt, Bertrand, Sonnemann, Guido, Souami, Taoufik, Soussou, Tatongueba, Sultan, Benjamin, Tatoni, Thierry, Thibaud, Jean-Paul, Thiébault, Stéphanie, Thomas, Frédéric, Tixier-Boichard, Michèle, Toulhoat, Hervé, Tourre, Yves, Toussaint, Jean-Yves, Treyer, Sébastien, Troussellier, Marc, Tubiana, Laurence, Vareilles, Sophie, Velut, Sébastien, Verneaux, Valérie, Viard, Jean, Vidal, Olivier, Villalba, Bruno, Villenave, Éric, Vindimian, Éric, Vlassopoulos, Chloé Anne, Voltz, Marc, Weber, Christiane, Weber, Jacques, Weisbuch, Claude, Wöppelmann, Guy, Yiou, Pascal, Laboratoire Techniques, Territoires et Sociétés (LATTS), and Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée (UPEM)-École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
2. Zero hunger, 0106 biological sciences, conservation des ressources naturelles, restauration de l'environnement, [SHS.SOCIO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Sociology, RNK, écologie humaine, Non précisé, 010501 environmental sciences, 01 natural sciences, environnement, NAT011000, politique environnementale, 13. Climate action, développement durable, Environmental studies, Geography & Development, santé, 010606 plant biology & botany, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
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Vingt ans après la première conférence de Rio, qu'est devenue la proposition de conduire nos sociétés vers un développement durable ? Adopté par les uns, utilisé comme faire-valoir par les autres, ce concept de développement durable est souvent vidé de son sens. Or, l'impact exponentiel des activités humaines sur les ressources naturelles, la santé des populations et le milieu exige d'expliquer ce qu'il est précisément. Qu'est-ce que le développement durable aujourd'hui ? Qu'en est-il de la disponibilité des ressources et de l'usage que nous en faisons ? Dans le domaine de l'eau, du climat, des sols, de la biodiversité ? En milieu rural, sur le littoral ou encore en milieu urbain, là où la majorité de la population va vivre d'ici 2050, comment consommons-nous au fil du temps, à travers les territoires? Quelles incidences les activités humaines ont-elles sur les ressources, sur la santé des populations et sur le milieu lui-même ? Les relations entre l'humanité et l'environnement doivent-elles évoluer ? Autant de questions posées à des scientifiques qui éclaircissent la complexité des interactions entre les systèmes et proposent des solutions pour un avenir sur le long terme. De nos écosystèmes à nos modes de consommation, des risques naturels aux nouvelles technologies ou aux pollutions, des usines du futur au traitement des déchets, Le développement durable à découvert informe, explique, partage tout ce que la science actuelle est capable d'apporter au défi majeur du XXIe siècle : comment mieux comprendre la complexité des enjeux qui nous concernent tous et assurer le développement de l'humanité sans détruire son biotope. Économistes, physiciens, sociologues, agronomes, écologues... plus de 150 chercheurs se sont mobilisés pour associer leur expertise à leur regard critique et décrire, comprendre, modéliser, imaginer, illustrations et schémas à l'appui, les outils destinés à construire les sociétés équitables de demain.(résumé 4e de couv)

Published
2017

25. 28. Adaptation des espèces

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Auffray, Jean-Christophe, Olivieri, Isabelle, and Ronce, Ophélie

Abstract

Aujourd’hui, l’incidence des activités humaines sur le monde vivant est telle, que la biodiversité se retrouve engagée dans une crise majeure de son histoire. Face aux changements environnementaux, les organismes et les communautés disposent pourtant de plusieurs capacités de réponses. Conditions et vitesses d’adaptation L’adaptation des espèces en réponse aux changements planétaires peut s’entendre de façon très restrictive, comme l’évolution de la composition génétique des populations, en r...

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2017

26. Preagricultural commensal niches for the house mouse and origins of human sedentism

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Weissbrod, Lior, Marshall, Fiona, Valla, François, Khalaily, Hamoudi, Bar-Oz, Guy, Auffray, Jean-Christophe, Vigne, Jean-Denis, Cucchi, Thomas, Zinman Institute of Archaeology [Haifa], University of Haifa [Haifa], Archéologies et Sciences de l'Antiquité (ArScAn), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-Université Paris Nanterre (UPN)-Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1), israel Antiquities Authority, Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier (UMR ISEM), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR226-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Archéozoologie, archéobotanique : sociétés, pratiques et environnements (AASPE), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Université Paris Nanterre (UPN)-Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR226, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis (UP8)-Université Paris Nanterre (UPN)-Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives (Inrap)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis (UP8)-Université Paris Nanterre (UPN)-Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE)

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[SDV.EE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology, environment, [SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory, [SDV.BID]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity, [SDV.BID.SPT]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity/Systematics, Phylogenetics and taxonomy
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International audience; In their letter, Dekel et al. (1) comment on our recent findings on the origin of house mice (Mus musculus domesticus) 15,000 y ago, ecological impacts of the first settled hunter-gatherers, and insights that this study provides on early domestication processes (2). They maintain that mice were parasitic with humans rather than commensal, and attracted by refuse and feeding opportunities in nomadic and sedentary hunter-gatherer settlements. Dekel et al. (1) contrast "negative" interactions with mice with the benefit that hunter-gatherers obtained from early interactions with wolves and wild boar. These arguments do not conform to empirical results from our study on mice (2), recent research on wild boar domestication (3), or theoretical expectations regarding commensal and preagricultural human/animal interactions (4-6). We do not argue for mutualism and domestication. The question of whether house mice were commen-sal with humans or parasitic is an interesting issue. However, Schwarz (7) argued that parasitism is not an appropriate description of human/mouse relations because mice do not depend on human hosts for their existence. Neither do the negative effects of mice (food consumption and disease transmission) involve direct impacts, sensu stricto. Our record on Levantine mice (2) offers rare empirical archaeological evidence demonstrating both positive and negative ecological effects on wild populations, which complies with formal definitions of commensalism in ecological theory (6, 8). We demonstrate absolute population shifts in mice with oscillations in mobility among Levantine hunter-gatherers preceding intensive Neolithic cultivation (ca. 15,000-11,500 B.P.). Still, current thinking on questions of animal domestication goes considerably farther than matching of species with categories of human/animal interaction. Niche construction paradigms examine intentional and unintentional cultural influences and the evolutionary trajectories of species that share human environments (4, 5, 9), providing a framework for understanding the mutable nature of commensal and mutualistic relationships characteristic of domes-tication (10). Our results demonstrate that early for-ager sedentism and its increasing ecological impact on ancient landscapes triggered new forms of interaction with species such as mice. It is likely that changing settlement habitats influenced wolves and wild boar, but in different ways. It was not merely the availability of "human waste" that provided a triggering mechanism for incipient domestication (1). It was rather the changing settlement ecology due to longer term and more intensive human occupation , as compellingly proposed by Edgar Anderson's dump-heap hypothesis (4). The influence of the built environment on intraspecies and interspecies social interactions and predation and the variable role of human intentionality was culturally significant. Our study of mice binds these strands of theory together, establishing that early sedentism marked a significant turning point in human ecological interactions, ushering in an era of steadily increasing anthropogenic ecosystem transformation and changing human/animal relations.

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2017
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28. The direction of main phenotypic variance as a channel to evolution: cases in murine rodents

Author

Renaud, Sabrina and Auffray, Jean-Christophe

Subjects
food and beverages, Morphometrics, evolutionary lineages, molar shape, mandible shape, phenotypic variation, Murinae, Rodentia
Abstract

How evolution can be channeled by intrinsic processes such as genetic and developmental networks is a key issue in evolution. Studying the phenotypic variation in a population can shed light on these constraints, because this variation, being the product of these genetic and developmental processes, is the target of both selective screening and random sampling. It could thus act as a “line of least resistance to evolution”. Based on morphometric analysis of molar and mandible shape in several fossil lineages and modern groups of murine rodents, we illustrate here the questions that can be addressed based on this framework. The role intrapopulational variation as line of least resistance to evolution is validated on several lineages. The existence of such preferential direction of evolution can contribute to explain cases of parallel evolution. The underlying mechanisms can be the sharing of similar genetic/developmental pathways but also common functional constraints limiting the range of phenotypic variation to be explored. Comparing directions of intrapopulation variance to the course of interpopulation evolution can thus be of help to bridge several evolutionary levels and contribute to an integrated vision of the phenotypic evolution. Download the complete "Yellow Book" on "Virtual Morphology and Evolutionary Morphometrics in the new millenium".

Published
2013

30. in the eye of Acuticryphops (Phacopina, Trilobita) and its evolutionary significance: a biometric and morphometric approach

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Crönier, Catherine, Feist, R., Auffray, Jean-Christophe, Laboratoire de paléontologie et paleogéographie du paleozoique (LPPP), Université de Lille, Sciences et Technologies-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier (UMR ISEM), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR226-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR226

Subjects
[SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
Abstract

International audience

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2004
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31. A new species of wild mice on the Island of Cyprus

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Bonhomme, François, Orth, Annie, Cucchi, Thomas, Hadjisterkotis, E., Vigne, Jean-Denis, Auffray, Jean-Christophe, Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier (UMR ISEM), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR226-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Génome, populations, interactions, adaptation (GPIA), Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Archéozoologie et histoire des sociétés (AHS), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR226, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2), Archéozoologie, histoire des sociétés et des peuplements animaux (AHS), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR226-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
Abpa gene, mtDNA, Mus, Cyprus, phylogeography, [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology, Pleistocene refugia
Abstract

A mitochondrial and nuclear gene analysis allowed us to precise the taxonomical position of the two sympatric species of mice known to be present on Cyprus. One of them is the commensal house mouse M. m. domesticus, and the other revealed to be a new taxon that is a sister species of M. spicilegus and M. macedonicus. The new species is equidistant from each of these, the divergence dating around 0.5-1 Myr. Its origin either results from an ancient accidental colonisation of the island or from a recent transportation by the first epipalaeolithic settlers. In this last eventuality, the new species would also exist somewhere else in Asia Minor.

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2004
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32. Molecular studies on the colonization of the Madeiran archipelago by house mice

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Gündüz, İslam, Auffray, Jean-Christophe, Britton-Davidian, Janice, Catalan, Josette, Ganem, Guila, Ramalhinho, Maria da Graca, Mathias, Maria da Luz, Searle, Jeremy, and Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi

Subjects
Island Colonization, Control Region, Mus Musculus Domesticus, D-Loop, House Mouse, Mitochondrial DNA
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Gündüz, İslam (Balikesir Author), To study the colonization history of the house mouse (Mus musculus domesticus) on the Madeiran archipelago, complete mitochondrial D-loop sequences were obtained for 44 individuals from Madeira, Porto Santo and Ilhas Desertas. Altogether, 19 D-loop haplotypes were identified which formed part of a single clade in a phylogeny incorporating haplotypes from elsewhere in the range of M. m. domesticus, indicating that the Madeiras were colonized from a single source. Similarities between the sequences found in the Madeiras and those in Scandinavia and northern Germany suggest that northern Europe was the source area, and there is the intriguing possibility that the Vikings may have accidentally brought house mice to the archipelago. However, there is no record of Vikings visiting the Madeiras; on historical grounds, Portugal is the most likely source area for Madeiran mice and further molecular data from Portugal are needed to rule out that possibility.

Published
2001

38. Rapid chromosomal evolution in island mice

Author

Britton-Davidian, Janice, primary, Catalan, Josette, additional, da Graça Ramalhinho, Maria, additional, Ganem, Guila, additional, Auffray, Jean-Christophe, additional, Capela, Ruben, additional, Biscoito, Manuel, additional, Searle, Jeremy B., additional, and da Luz Mathias, Maria, additional

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2000
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41. Passive transport of the house mouse (Mus musculus domesticus) to Cyprus at the Early Preceramic Neolithic (late 9th and 8th millennia cal. BC).

Author

Cucchi, Thomas, Vigne, Jean-Denis, Auffray, Jean-Christophe, Croft, Paul, and Peltenburg, Edgar

Subjects
*MICE, *RODENTS
Abstract

Sample scarcity and the need of a methodology well-suited to determination of archaeological specimens are responsible for the lack of information on the mechanism and on the ecological and anthropological conditions of the spread of the house mouse in Europe. We applied Fourier outline analysis to the lower first molars of mice from assemblages trapped in water wells from Early and Middle PPNB in Cyprus (Kissonerga–Mylouthkia). Results suggest that the house mouse was a part of the Neolithic ecological and cultural package introduced into the island by the very first agro-pastoral societies coming from the mainland. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2002
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42. [A new species of wild mice on the Island of Cyprus].

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Bonhomme F, Orth A, Cucchi T, Hadjisterkotis E, Vigne JD, and Auffray JC

Subjects
Animals, Climate, Cyprus, Geography, Mitochondria genetics, Muridae genetics, Phylogeny, Muridae classification
Abstract

A mitochondrial and nuclear gene analysis allowed us to precise the taxonomical position of the two sympatric species of mice known to be present on Cyprus. One of them is the commensal house mouse M. m. domesticus, and the other revealed to be a new taxon that is a sister species of M. spicilegus and M. macedonicus. The new species is equidistant from each of these, the divergence dating around 0.5-1 Myr. Its origin either results from an ancient accidental colonisation of the island or from a recent transportation by the first epipalaeolithic settlers. In this last eventuality, the new species would also exist somewhere else in Asia Minor.

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2004
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